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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all thing

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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